Holiday park burglar who fouled behind bar spared jail
A BURGLAR defecated behind the bar and spat out a drink during a break-in at a holiday park’s pub.
Barry Kieron Hobson, 34, admitted burglary at Hafan y Mor in Pwllheli but was spared jail because a court heard he could be rehabilitated.
The judge at Caernarfon Crown
Court gave him a 12-month jail term suspended for 18 months, but warned him he could be sent to prison if he re-offends in that time.
Prosecutor Ember-Jade Wong told the court that police were called to Hafan y Mor holiday park near Pwllheli on September 27 last year to look at CCTV footage of a break-in.
Officers saw that an intruder had broken in through a side door, pocketed change and left.
They identified Hobson from his vehicle, and he was arrested. The prosecutor said enquiries found Hobson had broken into the Glendower pub, causing £500 damage to the doors. He then went into the bar, took a packet of crisps and a can of Red Bull and consumed them. Next, he tried to prise open a till and a charity box but couldn’t do so, and threw the till on the floor.
After that, he opened a bottle of Archers and drank a mouthful but spat it out onto the floor. Before he left, he defecated into a bin behind the bar, said the prosecutor.
In total, the damage and items taken by Hobson cost £2,796.44, the court heard.
By committing the offence, Hobson, of Llys Cregyn, Kinmel Bay, had also been in breach of a suspended sentence.
On June 18 last year, some three months before the holiday park burglary, he had been given that 12-month suspended sentence for possession of an offensive weapon and common assault.
That came after he held a hacksaw to the face of someone he suspected of stealing his bike.
Simon Killeen, defending, said Hobson had had an alcohol problem but was turning his life around.